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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted, clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts: 1
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What does that even mean? Consciousness is somewhere in our nervous system. It's not transmitted from some otherworldly place or something
Check out the theory of a noosphere. I think that might be what OP could be referring to. There is a theory that this supposed layer of information is always interacting with us on a quantum level and ideas can just come from the universe itself, or something like that... I've read about it once a while back and just thought it was kind of a cool sci-fi concept.
It's also the basis for the plot in the Stalker games.
Thats amazing! Tell me, where in the nervous system does it reside?!
I already did: somewhere. I guess it's some kind of emergence, you know the saying "the whole is more than the sum of its parts"
That's a theory, no?
And what's your "theory"?
The alternative is mind-body dualism, and it certainly hasn't been proven one way or the other.
I don't have any particularly unique theory.
Me, personally, don't subscribe to any theory other then maybe, I am thinking, so I exist.
Oh you may think you're thinking, but can you prove you're not a Boltzmann brain?
And what are you implying in the post?
I'm doing this thing called a thought experiment. It's really fun. Try it sometime.